WOLVERINE (Earth-7)

Howling Commandos

In 1944, Logan joined the Howling Commandos after distinguishing himself as a soldier in Colonel Dungam's battalion. The elite team led by the Colonel was chosen by Officer Nick Fury to operate alongside Captain America and the Patriot on the battlefield in their campaign against Nazi Germany. Logan was one of the soldiers captured by HYDRA during one of the operations, but he was the only one to survive the bizarre experiments conducted by Elisa Sinclair, the occultist known as Madame Hydra, who, alongside her apprentice Wolfgang Von Strucker, tested the mutant's inhuman physiology to its limits. The research was interrupted by a rescue operation carried out by the Invaders. 

As Fang

In 1966, Logan lived peacefully in Japan alongside Mariko Yashida, whom he had met while they were both prisoners of war of HYDRA. These were probably the happiest years of Logan's life, and the first time he truly felt safe and free of regrets, which, of course, would not last long. Logan operated throughout Japan as a vigilante using his powers, with Mariko's full support, and during this time he used the codename Fang. Near the birth of their son, Akihiro, their home was invaded by Victor Creed, who returned after so many years for another confrontation, now driven not only by obsession, but as part of a much larger plan. Victor murdered the pregnant Mariko and kidnapped Wolverine, delivering him to the Weapon X Program. 

Weapon-X

 Fate would never allow peace. After Logan was captured by the shadowy Weapon X program, a government experiment designed to turn him into the ultimate weapon. Stripped of humanity, he was tortured in cold laboratories, his bones infused with adamantium—an indestructible metal that made his claws unbreakable and his body nearly invincible. 

The pain was beyond imagination. The scientists, men like Abraham Cornelius and Malcolm Colcord, reduced him to an object. What survived was a creature that could never truly die, yet could barely live with what had been done to him. More memories were stolen, erased, or twisted, leaving only fragments behind.

In 1982, after spending more than a decade as a test subject for the experiments of the American Weapon X Program, which continued Madame Hydra's research using documents seized by the government after the end of the war, Logan finally found an escape through a simple flaw in the system. He tore apart the laboratory and the scientists responsible for it, then wandered through the frozen wilderness toward Canada. Now more feral and confused than ever, he was found by the Hudson family, who took care of the mutant for a short time until he was located by the Canadian organization Department H. 

Working with Alpha Flight

In 1984, Logan took on the mantle of Wolverine, along with a heroic costume, and joined Alpha Flight, a Department H initiative focused on creating a task force for the nation's mutants and superhumans, aiming to integrate these enhanced individuals into society while allowing the government to benefit from their actions. Logan no longer remembered his past beyond fragmented flashes, and it was these memories, along with the traumas he endured in the Weapon X Project, that his mind would continue to relive over the following decades. 

As an X-Men

It was Charles Xavier and the X-Men who offered him something he never thought he would find: belonging. At first, Logan resisted, bristling at the idea of being part of a team, but over time he found a family among them. Young mutants looked up to him, some even calling him “Uncle Logan”—a name he claimed to despise, though a part of him clung to it. For all his savagery, Wolverine became a protector, the gruff guardian of the next generation.

In 1995, the X-Men came to an end due to persecution by the American government. In the final battle that preceded the team's dissolution, Magneto and his Acolytes faced the X-Men, who in turn fought Bastion, three opposing sides in the same conflict that ultimately made the Master of Magnetism the great victor. In the end, Magneto seized control of Asteroid M and intended to use it as an extension of his powers, planning to reverse Earth's magnetic poles and cause a global blackout. Wolverine managed to stop him by impaling him with his claws, which prompted Magneto to brutally rip the Adamantium from Logan's body. 

Retired

In 1997, Wolverine found himself in Madripoor after recovering and attempting to forge his own path away from the superhero world. He was kidnapped by Donald Pierce and his Reavers, who intended to remove the Adamantium from his body, only to discover that there was no longer any trace of the metal within him. From that point on, Wolverine was kept crucified in an X shape on the wall of the Reavers' base as little more than decoration until he was discovered and rescued by Storm and the ninja Yukio.

 After her stay on the island, Storm departed for Kenya, and before leaving, she introduced Yukio to Logan, who offered the mutant a chance at a new life within the local underworld. Through Yukio's connections, Logan became the crime boss known as "Patch," and for the next year lived among the criminal underworld, running his own operations as little more than a hobby.

In 1998, Wolverine returned to the X-Men as part of the main team. This time, the group's goal was to be seen as respected heroes by the general public, a prospect that still left Logan somewhat skeptical about hope. 

 Before rejoining the team, Wolverine made a mysterious pact with the members of the Weapon X Project, who wanted access to his body in order to study the procedures performed on him and recreate them in a new operative they intended to forge, Cyber, who had joined the project willingly. Logan accepted on the condition that Adamantium be restored to his body, and so it was. However, at the end of the operation, Wolverine killed the scientists, destroyed the project, and tore apart the operation's leader, "The Director," in the same manner that the man had once treated him, finally completing his revenge.